so i put together my water cooling loop last night.. d-tek db1 pump, fuzion v2 block, 1/2"id-5/8"od hosing, swiftec quiet power 120.2 rad and a microres from swiftec.

so far everything is going fine... but i'm gonna have to choose a coolant as i'm sure just pure distilled water with no additives is going be be problematic as time goes on..

no i'm using a copper block and brass... i believe radiator(correct me if i'm wrong, it looks like brass). so i'm not worried about galvanic corrossion but i do need to find a proper coolant solution to minimize maintence and maximize cooling...

i'm at 28idle and 47 load during prime95 quad stress test.

tell me what coolants work for you and what i should be doing.. if you can suggest things taht can be bought at my local hardware/auto parts store that would be great. thanx a lot.

thanx.. yeah i heard a lot of people speak out against using antifreeze because it's normally thicker then water and could kill a pump... apparently the m3n-ht does not have anything in the way of a cpu threshold shutoff but idk... i want safe because if the pump stops.. well i might be in trouble lol

yes. food dye stains really bad too. and it gums up in the fins of the blocks and in the pump

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I have replaced the coolant in my system several times because of hardware additions and subtractions (replacing E6600 with E8500, then adding two water cooled 4870's, and finally replacing with a GTX 295 (not water cooled)) and have not had a problem with staining. I find that the price for a bottle of coolant from a manufacture for $15.00 to be within reason and affordability.

Silver "kill coils" are a method of treating your water through silver filtration. Silver has been a long time "biocide" and TBH I use it topically when I have stuff like pinkeye. It works. Right now I'm running silver water in my rig that I ionized myself. Silver Ionized water is just as good as silver biocidal tubing, or kill coils.